Week 6 (WB 8th June)

Please try to complete at least two of the tasks below to a high standard and email them to your teachers using the year group emails: y5@njsch.uk or y6@njsch.uk.

Week 6

Over the past 5 weeks, we have received some incredible outcomes for our project so thank you for the brilliant work and effort. However, some of the tasks have been completed by many of you and some of our tasks by only a few. In order to complete the project to the highest standard we can, we would like to ensure that we have many great examples of all of the tasks so for our week 6 tasks we have compiled a list of tasks which we would like to see some more brilliant examples.

If you are somebody who has already completed these 5 tasks, you have 2 options:

1) Look back at your completed work from these tasks and critique, edit and improve it even further and send it in.

2) Look back over the last 5 weeks of tasks and find some tasks which you have not yet attempted and complete these as we are still looking for awesome work from many more of our previous 25 tasks.


drawing-the-human-face.pdf

Task 1 -Draw a portrait of a teacher

We would like you to draw a detailed portrait of a class teacher using one of the photographs provided. You may decide to do this using sketching pencil or colour using pencil crayons. There are two step-by-step included on the left of this text box: a simple nine step guide to portrait drawing and a more in-depth guide below for those of you wanting a challenge as it walks you through how to accurately draw every feature of the face.

A folder containing portrait photographs of the current teachers at NJS is available for you to access on your left. Use the guides to support your efforts as and use your observational skills to ensure you copy the picture accurately. Make sure to redraft parts of your drawing, remember to be resilient and know that there are very few artists who can draw a portrait without having to improve parts of their work!

We will select some of these teacher portraits to feature in our booklet produced at the end of the expedition.

This time, you can choose whichever teacher you would like and if you have time, you could create two portraits. You could even create one in colour and one in black and grey if you like. The more high quality portraits the better.

If you completed a portrait in week 2, please attempt a different teacher.

Above are example portraits drawn by the teachers.

Task 2 - What does NJS mean to you?

This task is an opportunity to really reflect on your time at NJS and demonstrate what the school and the people in it mean to you. We hope that these personal reflections, that will be included in the booklet, will help new starters to our school who may be feeling worried or anxious about joining us in September. How you present this is up to you. It may simply be a short written text, a piece of artwork or a mixture of text and images. Speak from the heart and be creative!


Task 3 - Write a character description of a teacher?

How good is your descriptive writing? Would it be easy for a group of future Year 3 pupils to recognise the teacher from your character description without mentioning the name?

We would like you to write a character description for a school staff member of your choice. Try to capture the attitude and behaviour of the teacher through your writing as their appearance.

Remember to make your character description interesting with high quality word choices and as well as the features of a character description as listed below.

  • Powerful adjectives

  • Interesting verbs

  • Third person

  • Adjectives in a list

  • Relative clause

  • Similes

  • Metaphors

You can choose whichever teacher you would like and if you have time, you could create two descriptions.

If you completed a description in week 2, please attempt a different teacher.

Character Description WAGOLL.docx

Read this example of a character description to help you out.

Year 6 Pupil Interview WAGOLL.docx

Task 4 - If you were new to NJS, what would you want to know?

For this task, you will need to cast your mind back to that time when you were anxiously preparing yourself to make the transition between the infant school and Norton Juniors. We all know that this can be a very distressing time for new pupils and so the focus of this task is to help the Year 3 children to feel more settled when they move into our school.

To achieve this, we would like you to write at least five questions that you think our new pupils will want to know about NJS. You will need to think carefully about how you felt at this time and the questions that you would have wanted to ask about your new school setting. Try and write open-ended questions (questions that cannot be answered by just a 'yes' or 'no' response), so that you can give as much detail as possible.

Once you have written down your questions, write a response to each one, using your knowledge of NJS and the teachers. You may find it useful to use Google Docs to complete this task, so you can then share your document directly with your teacher.

We will then present a selection of your transcripts in our NJS booklet, so make sure that these are beautifully presented and punctuated accurately.

Task 5 - Write a newspaper report about a school trip or extra curricular activity.


We all know that our school provides its pupils with plenty of opportunities to take part in school trips and a range of different extra curricular activities, such as sporting events, Young Voices, school productions and residential trips, to name a few. As such, we believe that this is an important and enjoyable aspect of NJS life that should be shared with our future Year 3 pupils.

For this reason, we would like you to produce an exciting newspaper report to describe an event, trip or club, which you have attended whilst at NJS. Remember that these recounts need to be as engaging as possible, so you may choose to exaggerate the facts a little (don't worry, we won't tell)!

To be successful in this task, you will also need to include the main features of a newspaper report that are listed below.

Success criteria:

  • A headline followed by an introductory paragraph (5 W's - what, where, when, who and why?);

  • Subtitles and pictures with captions;

  • Written in chronological order;

  • Written in third person and in past tense;

  • Direct speech (quotations of what was said).

Newspaper WAGGOLL.docx